Дмитро

Dmytro Sydorenko
ENGINEERING MANAGER | TECHNICAL DELIVERY LEADER | SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
[Dnipro, Ukraine] | [[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)] | [[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section)] | [LinkedIn]

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Engineering Leader with 20+ years of experience delivering and scaling digital products and cloud platforms in
product-driven organizations across e-commerce, travel, advertising, and digital experience domains.
Brings 10+ years of engineering and delivery leadership, with expertise in Agile delivery, cloud-native
architectures, AI-driven engineering practices, platform modernization, and cross-functional execution. Proven
track record of building and scaling teams, improving reliability in high-traffic environments, and aligning
technology investments with product and business goals. Recognized by AWS for excellence in cloud integration
initiatives.

CORE COMPETENCIES
● Engineering Leadership ● Platform Modernization & Legacy Transformation

● Agile Delivery & Execution ● Team Building & Talent Development

● Technical Strategy & Roadmapping ● DevOps, CI/CD & Release Management

● Cloud Architecture & Migration (AWS, Azure, ● Stakeholder Management & Cross-Functional
k8s) Leadership

● AI Enablement & Engineering Productivity ● Operational Excellence & Site Reliability

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CloudFlare, OpenShift, Linux, Apache, Nginx
Languages: PHP, GraphQL, SQL, JavaScript, Bash, C#, HTML, CSS, JSON, XML, YAML
Frameworks & Platforms: Laravel, Symfony, Zend Framework, Yii 1/2, Doctrine, WordPress, ReactJS, Angular, jQuery
Data & Integration: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MS SQL Server, Greenplum, Redis, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Kafka,
Gearman, Elasticsearch, Sphinx, REST, SOAP
Tooling: Git, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, LinearB, Swagger, Postman, Slack, Redmine,
Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Graphite, Kibana, OpsGenie, PHPUnit
SDLC-Frameworks: SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Lean
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager
Digital Experience Platform, Sitecore 2021 -
Present
● Supervised engineering delivery for a global-leading digital experience platform, overseeing 5 applications across 4
distributed teams (20+ engineers) spanning Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.
● Directed software development lifecycle from MVP through production, ensuring scalable and enterprise-ready customer
experience solutions.
● Successfully recovered and delivered a stalled strategic application, enabling previously unavailable customer-facing
capabilities.
● Implemented AI-driven engineering practices (PR reviews, automated test generation, AI-assisted SDLC workflows),
reducing task lead times by up to 21%.
● Partnered with business and technology stakeholders to drive delivery priorities, feature planning, technical trade-offs,
forecasting, and investment decisions.
● Introduced estimation and risk management frameworks that improved delivery predictability, resource allocation, and
project governance.
● Led infrastructure cost-governance initiatives, optimizing non-production environments and reducing operational spending
by 17% without impacting engineering productivity or delivery capabilities.
● Owned engineering people investments, including promotion and bonus planning, performance management, and career
development, while scaling teams through recruitment of 10 engineers across multiple regions.

● Owned production operations, release management, and incident response processes, leading L3 support, improving
alert accuracy, reducing support effort by up to 13%, and coordinating releases in Azure, Kubernetes and GitHub
Enterprise environments.
Architect / Technical Leader
Customized Gifts Producer, ArtPix3D 2020 -
2021
● Provided architecture and delivery leadership for a high-volume customized gifts platform serving 1.5M+ users per month,
partnering with C-level stakeholders to establish a Scrum-based SDLC and delivery governance model.
● Scaled the engineering organization from 10 to 25 team members, leading hiring, onboarding, conflict resolution,
performance management, and introducing skills grading and Personal Development Plans.
● Led the design and implementation of a modern e-commerce ecosystem based on React and Laravel, driving platform
modernization and long-term scalability.
● Introduced Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment automation, improving
engineering productivity, quality, and release reliability.
● Reduced infrastructure spending by 2.5x while increasing platform reliability to 99.9% uptime through cloud optimization,
observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational improvements.
● Implemented load testing, auto-scaling, support ticketing, and seasonal on-call processes, ensuring platform stability
during peak-demand events such as Black Friday.

Architect / Team Lead / Technical Lead
E-commerce Platform, MOYO 2018 –
2020
● Took ownership of a top-5 Ukrainian e-commerce platform serving 2M+ users per month during a high-risk transition,
stabilizing a business-critical monolithic system with significant technical and operational challenges.
● Built and scaled the engineering organization from 0 to 12 engineers, establishing Scrum-based delivery, technical
documentation, risk management practices, and a culture of engineering accountability.
● Led platform modernization, performance optimization, release management, and delivery of new business capabilities
across a mixed monolith and microservices architecture.
● Initiated and led the migration from an on-premises VMware-based infrastructure hosted in a Kyiv data center to AWS
Cloud, reducing operational risk and improving scalability and resilience.
● Implemented Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and cloud-native operational practices,
significantly improving deployment efficiency and platform reliability.
● Drove observability, load testing, capacity planning, and architecture improvements while partnering with business
stakeholders; the transformation was recognized with an AWS award for cloud integration excellence in Ukrainian
e-commerce.
Lead Web Developer
Online Travel Platform, Otravo 2016 – 2018
● Contributed to a major European online travel platform supporting flights, package tours, car rentals, insurance products
etc.
● Delivered new product capabilities and partner integrations while driving refactoring, performance optimization, and
engineering quality improvements.
● Collaborated with business stakeholders, mentored engineers, supported estimation, technical design, delivery planning
activities.
Senior Software Developer
Mobile Advertising Platform, MADS 2012 – 2017
● Contributed to a high-load advertising platform serving up to 15,000 ad impressions per second across web, mobile, SMS,
and location-based channels.
● Designed and implemented new platform capabilities, algorithms, and 40+ partner integrations, supporting scalability and
evolving business requirements.
● Improved performance and reliability through optimization, caching, database design, code reviews, release support, and
mentoring activities.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Developer | Social Dating Platform | 2011 - 2012
Software Developer | Dating Platform | 2010 - 2011
Web Developer / Software Developer | Web Portal & CMS Development | 2006 - 2010
IT Specialist / System Administrator | Windows Network Administration | 2005 - 2006

EDUCATION
Dnipro State University - Informatics in the Banking Sector | 2001 - 2004

LANGUAGES
English (Upper-Intermediate) | Ukrainian (Fluent) | Russian (Fluent)